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Jake Bowey - grade 5 Tom McDonald - purveyor of fine meat (aka Kel Knight) Michael Hibberd - Venitian gondolier Bailey Fritsch - plasma ball quality control tester Jack Viney - crash test dummy

Don't think you have either buddy

No he's not. Not any longer anyway The fact he's been injured and can't get past the VFL in 2022 illustrates this point succinctly It's actually a huge risk for us taking on a hobbling ruckman for 5 years on $600k, or whatever the suggested difference is. We've got more to lose than the pies IMO, high risk/ high reward could go flat

You might be right, though it could also be all clubs that signed up to be financially backed by the AFL at the start of the pandemic Effectively mean any AFL funded club could sign a 5 year coaching deal and give them the flick after 2 with only 6 months of pay https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/afl-insists-on-six-month-payout-clauses-for-coaches-20200918-p55wu1.html

I believe the AFL now have a rule that no coach can be paid out more that 6 months of ther contract. Stops clubs having to do a Clarko and fork out $1mill or more just to change coach

Melksham take a bow

Carlton supporters on train home whinging out loud about umpires, score reviews, players injured.... even bagging Saad as being a terrible kick Amazing!

20 tackles inside 50 ✅

Goes with the territory of playing for Carlton. Hope its not permanent

Essentially they determined in the appeal that Cripps was contesting the ball and not bumping. Apparently his turning the body was in a chest marking action, not a bumping action Wasn't it a handball? No where in the appeal did they refer to Cripps' duty of care towards his opponent when he collided with Ah Chee at high speed causing him to be concussed. So why the [censored] does the AFL go on about the head being sacrosanct and the approaching player being responsible for the medical outcome? Kangaroo court, for sure

The AFL want Carlton to play finals, big club on the big stage. Cripps is the brightest star at the club. It makes perfect sense that he would get off for no real reason. Meanwhile Ah Chee misses a week The AFL have no way of validating this decision, nor do they really care So want the blues to lose the next 2 and miss finals

I get that players want to kick goals. Who wouldn't want to be the one that scores, particularly when they might've been burnt earlier by a team mate. However, score assists should be the highest bench mark and point of praise: selfless footy. Too often we see player's eyes light up when the goals are in sight, despite having team mates nearby in a better position. The 3 examples given by Matthew Lloyd are a weekly occurance. Is it selfishness, stiff team rules or lack of vision? The team usually swamps the goal kicker after a major when they would be better to first congratulate the 'assistee'

No convinced Is this part of the peacemeal approach we've had with our forward line for the past 4-5 years? Would rather we throw what we get for Dogga plus his cap space at a good key forward. Who? I'm not sure. Maybe we can do both. We have the best ruck in the comp with little support (assuming Dogga leaves). But we have no quality key forwards, with both BBB and Tmac aging and on one leg Send Grundy the the Richmond doc for a thorough physical

2 weeks ✅

Kossie out Chandler in

Dumb thread We got pick 6 for him. Take the money and run!

In a marking contest its ok to put your hands in the back of your opponent and forcibly work them under the ball (see Ben Brown) unless your name is Harrison Petty

Nick Larkey would be handy next year If Dogga leaves, we have draft pick/s to utilise The Coll game is yet another example where we desperately needed another quality key forward

Must finish top 3 after H&A No team has won the premiership outside of top 3 in over 20 year (except bulldogs) Our best is well ahead of any other team. Need to keep that up for 4 quarters. Tmac returning would help 5 more wins and its back-to-back

Weather looking pretty miserable for the game. Big Cox will be about as useful as one of those flapping inflatable figures at used car yards

Weid does better as a second ruck/forward than solely as a key forward. I actually thought he was good that week both Max and Dogga were not playing. He's depth for our club. Not on a long or I assume, expensive contract. If posters can get over him being a pick 9 and look at him as inexpensive depth, then he's worth keeping as back up. He's worth more to us than what we'd be getting in any trade, especially if Dogga leaves and we still have no developing 2nd ruck However, if traded at years end I won't begrudge him the opportunity for a fresh start

Would be great to see BBB come out firing after his 2 week break. 4 goals to him, 3 to Kossie, 3 to Max Oh yeah!

Yes you did

You know nothing about the nature of his mental health. Nor do I. But you are saying he is faking mental health because he can't take the public backlash. That's called minimising the complexities of mental health Empathy not your strong suit, obviously Carry on

Any announcement from Buddy or management? Reporter simply said "it is my understanding that..."